Gaetano Caiozzo

Gaetano Caiozzo was an NYPD narcotics officer who was on the take of Arnold Rothstein.

Biography
Gaetano Caiozzo and Sam Moceri were two NYPD cops of Italian descent, and the two of them worked as partners on the narcotics squad of the police force. On 22 June 1923, the two men met with Lucky Luciano under the pretense that they represented Stefano Magaddino's gang, and they planned to purchase five pounds of heroin for $15,000. They succeeded in securing a deal, and they performed the transaction on a rooftop. After the policemen were given the heroin, they arrested Luciano and roughed him up in prison; the two were later brought out by their employer Arnold Rothstein when Rothstein revealed to Luciano that he had set him up in order to make a deal with Joe Masseria.